On This Day

Willie Mays became the second MLB player to reach the 600 home run mark for his career, Babe Ruth was the only other one at the time.

33 year old Andre Ward, ranked by The Ring magazine as the top pound-for-pound boxer in the world, announced a surprise retirement.

Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross won the 2014 AVP Championship played at Huntington Beach in Southern California.

The final home game was played at the stadium nicknamed, "The House That Ruth Built", Yankee Stadium in the Bronx it hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games.

The International Olympic Committee granted Beach Volleyball Olympic medal status.

USA Basketball announces the "Dream Team" for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, team incudes Charles Barkley, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan.

Chicago Bear legend Walter Payton scored an NFL record 107th rushing touchdown, breaking Jim Brown's record.

Billie Jean King won a much hyped nationally televised match held at the Houston Astrodome, between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King.

Mickey Mantle hits final career homer number 536, he played his entire 18-year career with the Yankees, and won three American League MVP titles.

Ken Griffey, Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run he is the first major leaguer to hit the career mark as a pinch-hitter, he did it in a Cincinnati Reds loss to the San Francisco Giants.